Ed Ram

Photojournalist and reporter based in East Africa, regularly working in Ukraine. Former Senior Journalist and film maker for @BBCNews

[Ed Ram @EdR4m]

I visited Borodyanka in Ukraine today to report for @GettyImagesNews and took this photo of graffiti in a residential area that was destroyed at the start of the conflict. Does anyone know if it’s a Banksy? Thanks

[Ed Ram @EdR4m]

Sabastian Sawe receives hero’s welcome in Kenya after sub-two hour marathon feat - read my report in The Guardian https://t.co/gBjIyVNHSm

[Katharine Houreld @khoureld]

Serving members of Kenya's security forces have been lured to fight for the Russian army in Ukraine, survivors and families say. They include a member of the elite U.S.-trained SPEAR unit, which guards the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. w/ @awuorombuor
https://t.co/XBsrHhCiTM

[Rael Ombuor @awuorombuor]

Recruitment of Kenyan mercenaries ensued months after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out. The allure was thousands of dollars in recruitment fees for recruitment agencies and high salaries that were impossible for many recruited Kenyans to obtain at home.
https://t.co/1tHCyCjxFH

[Francesca Ebel @FrancescaEbel]

Have been too shattered to write this but for the sake of clarity — I have also been laid off by the Post. I was one of the few journalists still working inside Russia. My last story went on the front page and featured rare testimonies from wounded soldiers criticizing the war.

[Ed Ram @EdR4m]

@Jayac74 Hi Jaya, hope you are well. Could you follow me back so I can DM you please? I have some important post for you from your former address. Many thanks!

[michelawrong @michelawrong]

Britain has suspended direct bilateral aid to Rwanda and suspended military training with its army. It will be reviewing export licences for the RDF. https://t.co/bAjgG2NvCM“The%20UK%20calls%20for%20an,Defence%20Forces%20from%20Congolese%20territory

[Isabelle Khurshudyan @ikhurshudyan]

Our latest story from eastern Ukraine, where soldiers said they’re feeling increasingly exhausted and shorthanded. With ⁦@serhiikorolchuk⁩ and ⁦@EdR4m⁩: https://t.co/j1nQ904HQQ

[Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews]

People watch television as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a ceasefire near Martyrs Square where people sheltered as Israeli battered central Beirut with multiple airstrikes in Beirut Lebanon. The ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has now begun. 📷: @EdR4m

[Peter Hunt @_PeterHunt]

It didn’t feature on the news bulletins on BBC Radio 4 at 7am or 8am – just in the newspaper review, the traditional home for stories the BBC find ‘tricky’. 

It didn’t feature in the newspaper review on Broadcasting House on Radio 4. 

The review lasted 13 minutes.

[Ed Ram @EdR4m]

Destruction from an Israeli airstrike that hit yesterday in front of Baalbek’s UNESCO-listed Roman ruins, a revered heritage site with some of the largest and best-preserved Roman temples outside of Rome. #Lebanon

[Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews]

Journalists watch as smoke rises after the first of a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Dahieh suburb south of Beirut, Lebanon. Israeli military issued a warning to residents in Bourj el-Barajneh saying that they should evacuate from several buildings there. 📸: @EdR4m #Beirut

[Siobhán O'Grady @siobhan_ogrady]

We traveled to Sudzha w/ UA troops. Many surreal moments: RU woman begged for peace. UA soldier says his hometown is occupied by RU. "Well, I think we’re just innocent civilians" she said. "I used to think that, too, when we were civilians,” he said back. https://t.co/OVeRVNWrZW

[Siobhán O'Grady @siobhan_ogrady]

A surreal moment on the Russian border yday: the director of Ukraine’s war museum was there collecting souvenirs from soldiers who went into Russia. Movie posters, Russian uniforms and even a communist flag were loaded into his car to be displayed in Kyiv. https://t.co/pM6UFuzLKe

[Siobhán O'Grady @siobhan_ogrady]

We met young Russians captured by Ukrainian forces in Russia.

“We did not want to fight in any way,” said Nikolai, 22. “We were promised that we would not take part in hostilities at all.”

When asked who promised, he said: “President Vladimir Putin.”

https://t.co/JJUonuvkOG

[IPAEA @IPAEastAfrica]

#Kenya Police in #NairobiCBD have shot at least three journalists at close range with teargas cannisters, including IPAEA members, wounding them, while they were covering anti-government protests. @CPJAfrica @RSF_en

[Andy Murray @andy_murray]

Never even liked tennis anyway.

[DIE ZEIT @zeitonline]

"Wer in Adré ankommt, ist nicht selten Zeuge brutalster Gewalt in Darfur geworden, Sudans westlichster Region, in der laut den Vereinten Nationen ein Völkermord droht". @EdR4m @anthe_bachmann https://t.co/XEOrZOAEgM

[IPAEA @IPAEastAfrica]

IPAEA statement on arrest of journalists covering demonstrations in #Nairobi @CPJAfrica @NationBreaking @AP @MediaCouncilK

[Isabelle Khurshudyan @ikhurshudyan]

Basic training in Ukraine is barely covering the basics, commanders say

Story with ⁦@serhiikorolchuk⁩ and ⁦@EdR4m⁩ https://t.co/yQy6QUMSnk

[nehawadekar @NehaWadekar]

I wrote about how & why certain crises get more humanitarian funding than others, and what that means for refugees fleeing horrific ethnically motivated violence in #Sudan